Candle holder for birthday cakes



March 26, 1957 L. E. scHERER 2,786,345

CANDLE HOLDER FOR BIRTHDAY CAKES Filed Nov. 25, 1955 I N V EN TOR. ac/Le Ei SCA/5R51?,

5f/mm United States Patent C) CANDLE HOLDER FOR BIRTHDAY CAKES LucilleE. Scherer, Gardena, Cali Application November 25, 1955, Serial No.548,905

6 Claims. (Cl. 67-25) My invention relates to holders for the candlesusually used to decorate birthday and similar decorated cakes.

Such cakes are nearly always designed to be particulary decorative,having congratulatory messages in colored icings, graceful designs offlowers, and the like, together with ruching. or continuous garlandsaround the peripheral edge of the cake. When candle holders of the typesheretofore known, which support a candle on a spike, are used it isoften diflicult to arrange them symmetrically without damage to thedecorations and Without obscuring the latter, and it is also often mostdifficult to position the desired number of candles on the cake withouta resulting conglomeration of congested candles and holders thereforbeing displayed.

In general, most birthday and anniversary cakes are provided aroundtheir peripheral edges with a raised decorative border of icing, whippedcream, and the like, as Well as the usual decorative designs and messagedisplayed on the top surface of the cake; and it is the general objectof my invention to provide a novel decorative holder for candles to beused in further decorating such a cake, and which holder may be firmlyand securely embedded in the cake proper without likelihood of itbecoming dislodged or displaced after placement on the cake, and alsowithout contact with or damage to the decorations on the cake border;and also whereby an increased number of candles may be deeoratively sup-Y ported on the cake in such manner that the decorations and message onthe cake top will not be obscured.

It is an object of my invention to provide a novel decorative candleholder yfor birthday cakes, and the like, by the use of which numerouscandles may be sup-` .I

candle holder of the above character, and by means ofV which a largenumbern of candles may be artistically mounted on a cake with a minimumarea of the cake obscured by supporting members of the holders.

A further object of my invention is to provide `a` novel decorativeholder for candles, and by which two or more candles may be supportedadjacent the edge of a cake, one candle holding socket being arranged ona portion of the supporting member depending over the side of the cakewhile other candle holding socket means are arranged on the supportingmember above the surface of the cake, or layer thereof.

A still further object of my invention is to provide a novel decorativecandle holder for birthday cakes, and the like, whereby a plurality ofcandle receiving sockets are supported at dierent levels with respect toone another on a single support that is adapted to be pushed into andembedded in the cake to be decorated.

Another object of my invention is to provide a novel decorative candleholder for birthday cakes, and the like, and in which a single supportwith a curved portion is rice provided that is adapted to extend overthe edge of a cake and any ruching extending around the peripheral edgeof the cake, without marring said ruching, said curved portion beingcontinued downwardly to support a candle socket adjacent the side of thecake, another portion of said supporting meansserving to mountadditional socket means.

Other objects, advantages and features of invention may appear from theaccompanying drawing, the subjoined detail description, and the appendedclaims.

The accompanying drawing illustrates the invention in some of the formsI at present deem preferable.

Figure 1 is a side elevational view, partly in section, of a portion ofan ornamented cake arranged in three tiers, and showing the variousforms of the novel candle holders of my invention associated therewith.

Fig. 2 is a side elevational view, on enlarged scale, of one form of anovel candle holder constructed in accordance with my invention insertedinto the edge of a plain frosted cake, the latter being shown insection; and a portion of the candle holding socket being shown insection.

Fig. 3 is a side elevational view of another form of a novel candleholder constructed in accordance with my invention, and arranged to holdtwo candles on a single supporting member; and

Fig. 4 is a side elevational view of a modification of my inventionarranged to mount a single candle and provided With a supporting memberadapted to be pushed into the side walls of a cake.

Referring now to Fig. 3 of the drawing, the numeral 10 indicatesgenerally a typical embodiment of my invention which includes anelongate curved supporting member 11 having a pointed end portion 12 andan arcuate or curved portion 13 intermediateits length, a portion 14extending generally similarly to the portion 11 and a candle holding ormounting portion 15. The socket supporting portion 15 is preferablywound in a spiral for decorative effect as shown inthe drawing butobviously other forms of a decorative nature may be given to the socketsupporting end 15.

The sockets 16 may be of any preferred form as shown by way of example,as being of small cylindrical blocks bored as at 20 to receive the endof birthday candles and secured to the Asupporting member in anysuitableway.

It will be noted that by mounting one socket 16 'on the high point ofthe curved portion 13 of the .supporting member 11, and another socket16 on the spiral end 15 which is at a lower level than portion 13, twocandles may be mounted on a single supporting member 11 and give a verypleasing appearance to the cake. l

The curved portion 13 is primarily provided to enable the supportingmember 11 to extend over the ruching or decoration 17 `usually placed`around the peripheral edge of a birthday cake A and depend down `theside of the cake without marring the ruching and supporting thedownwardly extending portion 14 of the supporting member clear of theside of the cake which is usually covered with icing, and the curvedsupporting member 11 tends to bind the holder in mounted position on thecake A.

In the form of the candle holder shown in Fig. 2, the left hand portion15a of the candle holder 10 is similar to that of the candle holdershown in Fig. 3 but an additional branch 18 is provided and connected inany suitable manner to supporting member 11a to extend to the sideopposite to portion 15a, and may end in a similar spiral 15' on which asocket 16a is mounted at a higher level than the adjacent socket.

In the modification of the invention shown in Fig. 4, the candle holder10", has its socket 16b mounted on al spiral ,mounting portion 15bofsimilar formto `those shown in Figs. 2 and 3 but a supporting member 11bis provided which extends laterally of, and angularly to, themountingportion 15b to enable the candle holder .10""to-'be inserted inthe sidewallsof a cake,as shown fat vthe -top in Figure 1.

The artistic and-decorative effect which is achieved -by the candleholders of my; invention isv clearly shown .in Figfl. -It` will beseenthat the triple candle holder shown in Fig. 2 may be used on theedge ofthe bottom tier 2S 'of a three tierv cake, the double candle holdershownv in-Fig. 3 may be -used -around the --edge of the second tier 26,andthe single candle holder shown in Pig. `4 may be used around thesides of -the top layer 27 of the cake. While candles 19 of the sameheighth are. shown in allforms ofthe candle' holder obviously candles ofvariousl heights may be used to give different etfects. The candles19am-received in recesses 2) in the respective sockets 16,16a and 1611.

kThe candle holder of my invention may -be made of any suitable materialas for-instance of ymetal wire with separate receptacles to hold thebase of the candles secured to the wire in any suitable manner, orthewhole device mayv preferably be formed of plastic molded into thedesired conguration.

From-the foregoing, it will :be seen that in the preferred form andembodiments of my invention as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, that- I haveprovided a candle holder having an elongate supporting member that isbent intermediate its ends intoasubstantially inverted U-shape form, oneleg 11 of which is curved inwardly toward the other leg-14 thereof so asto form a more or less hook-end to be inserted in the cake, `to therebyaid in maintaining the candle holder 10 in proper mounted position onthe -cake A, and the arcuate or curved portion or Vbase-13 ofV saidinverted U-shaped supporting member is adapted tok receive, embrace orstraddle the decorations 17I aroundthe border or peripheral edge of thecake without contact therewith, or damage thereto.

The candle holders 10, 10 and 10 may be placed in staggered arrangementaround the periphery of various tiersor layers 25, 26 and 27 of cake Ato enhance the decorative effect of combining my novel candle holderswith birthday cakes, and the like.

While certain specific embodiments of my invention have beenhereinndescribed and shown in the drawing, it will be obvious thatvarious modifications may be made by those skilled in the art-withoutdeparting from the scope of the invention as defined in the appendeclaims.

I claim:

1.. A candle holder forcakes, and the like, including an invertedU-shaped supporting member, one leg of which member is adapted to beinserted into a cake and receive the peripheral edge -of a cake withinthe curved base portion of said, inverted U-shaped supportingl member;and a vpluraltyvofcandle receiving and retaining .members connected toand supported by said U-shaped supporting member, and one of said candlereceiving members being located at one end of said U-shaped member.

2. A candle holder for cakes, and the like, including an invertedU-shaped supporting member, one leg of which member is adapted to beinserted into a cake and receive the peripheral edge of a cake withinthe curved base portion of said inverted U-shaped supporting member; anda plurality of candle receiving and retaining members connected to andsupported by said U-shaped supporting member, said first-mentioned legmember being curved inwardly toward the other leg member, and one ofsaid candle receiving members being located at one end of said U-shapedmember.

3. A candle holder for cakes, and the like, including an invertedU-shaped supporting member, one leg of which member is adapted to beinserted into the top of a cake and receive the peripheral edge of acake -Within the curved base portion of said inverted U-shapedsupporting member, and the other leg of said supporting member beingadapted to extend downwardly adjacent the side wall of the cake; and aplurality of candle receiving and retaining members connected to andsup- Yported by said U-shaped supporting member, said firstmentioned legmember being curved inwardly toward `the other leg member; and saidcandle receiving members being positioned to support a candle in eachthereof at different levels relative to the cake top, and one of saidcandle receiving members being positioned to support -a candle from thefree end of said other leg member.

4. A candle holder for cakes, and the like, comprising a supportingmember that includes a generally vertical portion for insertion into thetop of a cake adjacent the peripheral edge thereof, a curved portionadapted to extend above and over the peripheral edge of the cake, anda'downwardly extending portion depending from the curved portion andadjacent the side wall of the cake; and a candle receiving socketrespectively secured to said curved portion and another candle receivingsocket secured -to said downwardly extending portion.

5. A candle holder as defined in claim 4, and in addition comprising anadditional supporting member eX- tending from said generally vert-icalportion and above the top of the cake; and another candle receivingsocket secured to said additional supporting member.

6. A candle holder as defined in claim 4, and in addition the generallyvertical portion being curved inwardly toward the downwardly extendingportion of said supporting member.

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